Steven Yeun Biography

Steven Yeun is an American actor and producer. He is known for his role in Glenn Rhee in the television series The Walking Dead and Ben in the film Burning. Yeun got several accolades for the film Burning, he got the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor.

Steven Yeun Age

Yeun was born on 21st December 1983 in Seoul, South Korea.

Steven Yeun Height

Yeun stands at a height of 5 feet 7 inches tall.

Steven Yeun Family

Yeun was born to Je and Jun Yeun, His father was an architect in South Korea before moving his family in 1988 to Canada, where they lived in Regina, Saskatchewan. He has a younger brother named Brian. The family later moved to the U.S. and settled in Taylor, Michigan, and then Troy, Michigan, where Yeun lived until he graduated from Troy High School in 2001.

Steven Yeun Wife

Yeun is married to Joanna Park, the couple got married in 2016. They have two children together.

Steven Yeun Career

Instead of going to law school or medical school, Yeun told his parents that he wanted to pursue an improv career in Chicago. His parents were dissatisfied with his decision, but they nevertheless supported him and gave him two years to pursue acting. Near 2005, he and his brother came to Chicago and settled in Lincoln Square.
He joined Stir Friday Night, an Asian-American sketch comedy troupe, shortly after graduating. Danny Pudi from Community is one of the group’s other alumni. Before relocating to Los Angeles in October 2009, he joined The Second City in Chicago.
He was cast in Joe Lynch’s action-horror flick Mayhem in March 2016. On November 10, 2017, the film was released in theaters. Yeun was cast in Bong Joon-action-adventure ho’s thriller Okja in April 2016. At the 2017 Cannes Film Festival, the film competed for the Palme d’Or in the main competition division.
On June 28, 2017, it was made available on Netflix. Yeun also voiced Bo in the 2017 film The Star. After that, Yeun played opposite Lakeith Stanfield, Armie Hammer, and Tessa Thompson in Boots Riley’s dark comedy Sorry to Bother You, which was released in theaters on July 6, 2018. In January 2018, the film made its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival.
He is a voice actor who has worked on both animated television shows and feature films. Avatar Wan in The Legend of Korra’s second season, Steve Palchuk in Trollhunters and 3Below, Keith in Voltron: Legendary Defender, Nathan Park/Wingspan in Stretch Armstrong and the Flex Fighters.
Little Cato in Final Space, and Speckle in Tuca & Bertie are just a few of the parts he’s played.

It was then confirmed that Yeun would reprise his role as Steve Palchuk in Wizards, the third installment of the Tales of Arcadia trilogy. On December 21, 2018, Netflix published the first season of 3Below, and on July 12, 2019, the second and final season was released.

In 2020 he landed a lead part in an episode of Jordan Peele’s Twilight Zone reboot. He currently voices Mark Grayson in the animated superhero series Invincible, which was released on Amazon Prime in March 2021 and is based on Robert Kirkman’s comic book series.

Steven Yeun Walking Dead

The Walking Dead, an AMC television horror drama based on the comic book series of the same name, features Yeun in the lead character of Glenn Rhee. The series premiered in 2010 and follows a gang of survivors in a brutal post-apocalyptic world overrun by flesh-eating zombies.
The Walking Dead became cable television’s highest-rated series, with seasons three through six attracting the most 18 to 49-year-old viewers of any cable or broadcast television series.

Steven Yeun Pronunciation

Conan O’Brien, the ginger comedian, recently brought Steven Yeun from The Walking Dead on his show to discuss the show’s dramatic Season 7 opener, but their chat quickly devolved when O’Brien admitted to the audience that he had been mispronouncing his friend’s name for years
After a lengthy discussion in which O’Brien recalled his long friendship with Yeun, the bombshell was made. They’ve gone on other excursions together on the host’s show, including a journey to Korea to learn more about Yeun’s history as a Korean-born American actor.
However, it was on their way back from Korea that Yeun finally admitted to O’Brien that he had been mispronouncing his surname. The actor’s last name is ‘Ye-un,’ not ‘Ye-un.’

Steven Yeun Movies and Tv shows

• Minari
• Beoning
• Mayhem
• Nope
• Okja
• The Walking Dead
• The Legend of Korra
• Tuca & Bertie
• Wizards

Steven Yeun Net worth

Yeun has an estimated net worth of $ 4 million dollars.